The shadow club : the greatest mystery in the universe - shadows - and the thinkers who unlocked the...
The shadow club : the greatest mystery in the universe - shadows - and the thinkers who unlocked the...
The shadow club : the greatest mystery in the universe - shadows - and the thinkers who unlocked their secrets / Roberto Casati ; translated from the Italian by Abigail Asher.
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New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003.
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Date
2003.
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N535.4/21
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English
Italian
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230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. In the Beginning There Was Shadow -- Pt. 1. The Heart of Shadow -- II. Ancient and Modern Shadows -- III. Shadow Merchants -- IV. Shadows on the Mind -- V. Shadow of a Doubt -- Pt. 2. Shadows in the Sky -- VI. Special Effects -- VII. Eclipses, Shadow Cones, and Pyramids -- VIII. The Stolen Sundia...
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New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003.
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1st American ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2003.
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"What's stranger than a shadow? Shadows are messengers from the world of darkness, images that we can't shake off, black spots that have troubled our sleep through the ages. And yet shadows have been the key to unlocking some of our toughest scientific problems: the reason for eclipses, the distances between planets, the shape and size of the earth...
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The shadow club : the greatest mystery in the universe - shadows - and the thinkers who unlocked their secrets / Roberto Casati ; translated from the Italian by Abigail Asher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N535.4/21
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74VK2BxLMqm3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK2BxLMqm3
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0375407278
9780375407277
DDC
535.4
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991018177089702626
